CASM FINAL Exam AND PRACTICE Exam | 2025
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What is NOT A complication of smoking during pregnancy that is actually d
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✔✔✔ Correct Answer >Preeclampsia (a plum of a test question)
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Which parts of the brain are particularly sensitive to alcohol related da
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mage? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > The frontal lobes and cerebellargray
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What about alcohol and hippocampus? -
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f ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > MRI studies show that there is reduced volume i
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n the anterior but not theposterior hippocampus in chronic alcohol abus
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ers, and these deficits or worse in patient complaining of memory loss or
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,What has NOT been shown effective in preventing use from smoking? -
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✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Providing prizes or incentives
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What does work among adolescents in decreasing smoking? - ✔✔✔
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Correct Answer > Increasing the cost of cigarettes through taxation
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What have MRI SPECT images of the brain shown about brain blood flow in
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alcoholics? - f
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > That it is decreased in thefrontal lobes
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Which ion channels are the primary targets for alcohol? -
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✔✔✔ CorrectAnswer > those gated by: glutamate, GABA, acetylcholine,
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ATP, and serotonin
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Name the key features of the Minnesota Model - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer
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> Use of professional staff and trained recovering alcoholics; patient an
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d family education; strong link to AA; abstinence from all addictivesubst
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ances except caffeine in tobacco; belief that alcoholism is a
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,primary progressive disease that cannot be cured, although it can bearre
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sted through abstinence and AA
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What can help the children of the smoking mothers prevent newbornpulm
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f ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Providing a pregnant mother with vitamin C sup
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plementation
In patients withdrawing from both hypnotic -
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f sedatives and CNS stimulants, which is treated first? -
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✔✔✔ Correct Answer > hypnotic -sedatives
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For those patients on both opiates and sedative-
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NSDUH in 2014, Americans ages 12 and up who reported being currentdrin
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kers of alcohol. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > slightly more than half (52.7%)
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, Of those 176.6 million alcohol users, an estimated
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f have an AUD. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 17 million
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In 2012, what percentage of eighth graders, and what percentage of 12gra
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ders, used alcohol in the past year? -
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✔✔✔ Correct Answer > eighthgraders: about 24%; twelfth graders: abou
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t 64%
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Codeine is metabolized into morphine by this enzyme: -
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✔✔✔ CorrectAnswer > CYP2D6
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Methadone is primarily metabolized by this enzyme: -
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✔✔✔ CorrectAnswer > CYP3A4
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These drugs inhibit CYP 3A4, and thereby slow the elimination of methado
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What is NOT A complication of smoking during pregnancy that is actually d
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ecreased in pregnant smokers? - f f f f
✔✔✔ Correct Answer >Preeclampsia (a plum of a test question)
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Which parts of the brain are particularly sensitive to alcohol related da
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mage? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > The frontal lobes and cerebellargray
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What about alcohol and hippocampus? -
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f ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > MRI studies show that there is reduced volume i
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n the anterior but not theposterior hippocampus in chronic alcohol abus
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ers, and these deficits or worse in patient complaining of memory loss or
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Korsakoff syndrome f
,What has NOT been shown effective in preventing use from smoking? -
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✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Providing prizes or incentives
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What does work among adolescents in decreasing smoking? - ✔✔✔
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Correct Answer > Increasing the cost of cigarettes through taxation
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What have MRI SPECT images of the brain shown about brain blood flow in
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alcoholics? - f
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > That it is decreased in thefrontal lobes
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Which ion channels are the primary targets for alcohol? -
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✔✔✔ CorrectAnswer > those gated by: glutamate, GABA, acetylcholine,
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ATP, and serotonin
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Name the key features of the Minnesota Model - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer
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> Use of professional staff and trained recovering alcoholics; patient an
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d family education; strong link to AA; abstinence from all addictivesubst
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ances except caffeine in tobacco; belief that alcoholism is a
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,primary progressive disease that cannot be cured, although it can bearre
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sted through abstinence and AA
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What can help the children of the smoking mothers prevent newbornpulm
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onary dysfunction? - f f
f ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Providing a pregnant mother with vitamin C sup
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plementation
In patients withdrawing from both hypnotic -
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f sedatives and CNS stimulants, which is treated first? -
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✔✔✔ Correct Answer > hypnotic -sedatives
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For those patients on both opiates and sedative-
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f ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Taper the sedative-
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NSDUH in 2014, Americans ages 12 and up who reported being currentdrin
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kers of alcohol. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > slightly more than half (52.7%)
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, Of those 176.6 million alcohol users, an estimated
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f have an AUD. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 17 million
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In 2012, what percentage of eighth graders, and what percentage of 12gra
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ders, used alcohol in the past year? -
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✔✔✔ Correct Answer > eighthgraders: about 24%; twelfth graders: abou
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t 64%
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Codeine is metabolized into morphine by this enzyme: -
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✔✔✔ CorrectAnswer > CYP2D6
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Methadone is primarily metabolized by this enzyme: -
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✔✔✔ CorrectAnswer > CYP3A4
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These drugs inhibit CYP 3A4, and thereby slow the elimination of methado
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ne and increase the methadone level: - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer
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